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Georgia Southern is making another post-season run. Over the weekend, the Eagles topped Old Dominion 49-35 in the Football Championship Series national quarterfinals. The victory puts GSU one win away from playing for the national title.

Greenbrier High School baseball coach Chris Wilkins will again hold a winter baseball camp at the school.

Most of the counselors at the camp are former Greenbrier baseball standouts.

Two of the more notable counselors will be former University of Georgia star and Seattle Mariners farmhand Rich Poythress and Brandon Cumpton, who starred at Georgia Tech and now is in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. In addition to Poythress and Cumpton, seven former Greenbrier players who play on Division I teams and six more who play Division II will be instructors.

Alabama and Georgia put on quite a show over the weekend in the Southeastern Conference championship game. Both teams played their hearts out and the game came down to the wire. In the end, to the dismay of UGA fans, Alabama held on for a 32-28 victory and earned a spot in college football’s BCS title game vs. Notre Dame.

The 2012-13 basketball season is under way and once again we have to keep an eye on the underclassmen.

Last year, Reggie Reid of Harlem became the first freshman to capture the Eric Marshall Award as County Player of the Year. Reggie is off to another great start, but for the second straight year there is a freshman turning heads in Columbia County. Also, Evans was overwhelmed by Glenn Hills’ pressure in a 70-41 loss to the Spartans, but the Knights have been hot since.

The Montreal Alouettes did not make it back to the Canadian Football League’s Grey Cup this year, but former Lakeside High School and Furman standout Brian Bratton still managed to garner some post-season headlines.

Bratton, who missed several games this year to injury, finished the season with 28 receptions for 469 yards and four touchdowns. He also averaged a career-best 16.9 yards per catch.

Three of the five members of last season’s first team All-County basketball squad have graduated, but the county still has some talent – including Harlem High School’s Reggie Reid, last season’s Eric Marshall Award winner as Columbia County Player of the Year.

Reid became the first freshman to win the honor. It was well-deserved, as he single-handedly got people talking about Harlem basketball. Reid is not the only returning player to watch. With the season getting underway, here are my pre-season All-County selections.